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Newspaper
Lovington Leader
Location
Lovington, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1916
Page
1
A concise notice listing notable deaths and obituaries from local and international perspectives. Includes limited biographical details and dates where readable, preserving formal obituary tone without sensational wording.
Reports from Paris and London describe Italian and Greek movements in the Balkans and Aegean fronts, with Russia regaining Mush and capturing prisoners. British and French forces advance on the Somme. Italy declares or moves toward war with Germany. Other items include earthquakes, politics, and naval incidents of the era.
In Greeley Colorado Island Grove hosts 150 of the Wests fastest horses for a three day meeting. Charlie White intervened to defend his brother Jack White in Pueblo against Kid Mex with Mex awarded the win. Peter Billiken won the 2 11 pace and Labelle Online took the 15 pace with Baxter Lou close. Miss Pinkerton won the 2 17 trot as Waynetta tops the free for all. Vesper Rose by MacRose won the 2 30 trot.
The Aug 20 to Sept 18 rundown lists conventions in Santa Fe Albuquerque and other towns, plus fairs at Roswell and Grand Canyon area. It notes labor parades in Albuquerque and civic projects at Carlsbad and Tyrone, with local incidents including thefts, a rattlesnake bite, and measles outbreaks.
Outline of the annual meeting of the Taxpayers Association of New Mexico shows sessions in Albuquerque during Sept 28 29. Topics include state control of bonds school purchasing and district consolidation with ten minute discussions and reports from officers. Several hundred taxpayers are expected to attend.
Carriers press for arbitration while brotherhoods demand talks with a counter proposal that upholds a guiding principle. The dispute centers on labor terms and methods of enforcing agreements amid ongoing negotiations.
Washington reports four Brent railroad brotherhood leaders warned of a nationwide strike if not granted an eight hour day. Executives counter with arbitration rooted plan including retroactive wage increases if so ordered and a fund to cover costs. Draft report approved by union presidents with final presentation to President Wilson expected today. Also noted is a separate fatal shooting near Falcon Colorado where Thomas Gwillim and Mary E. Simmons were killed by rifle fire.
A Asht Atchison Santa Fe freight train plunged into a washout three miles east of Deming after heavy rains. Engineer Thomas Smwith died late in the afternoon and fireman F H Clarke was scalded, blocking traffic as wreckage piled up. In Roswell Norman Riggs 25, of the national forest service, died when his car skidded off a bridge on Nogal hill road.
Adjutant General Harry T. Herring announced that Sergeant Major John G. Lassater of the New Mexico regiment was promoted to second lieutenant in the regular infantry. Captain F. W. Thompson, quartermaster of the New Mexico regiment, was recommended for assistant quartermaster of the provisional division on the border, with a War Department request for recommendation. Earl Wilson of the city was named to Lassater as sergeant major of the regiment.
Two clear lists from the general land office at Washington detail state lands to be cared for by the state land offices. One list covers 31 700 acres in the Las Cruces land district and the other 28 700 acres in the Clarion land district.
Santa Fé reports tentative federal allotments totaling one million dollars for construction and maintenance of roads and trails in national forests. Arizona receives 59795 dollars, Colorado 62335 dollars, and New Mexico 42622 dollars.
Frank West a 23 year old ranch man from Delhi was stabbed to death at Delhi Station on the Santa Fe line by Ricardo Lucero a Mexican section worker. Lucero fled after changing clothes in a box car shack. A woman and Danciano Sandoval, said to be Lucero’s accomplices, are in county jail.
Dan Scanlan, 30, died when his motorcycle was struck by a fire wagon in Clovis. He sustained severe head and skull injuries, and the incident is reported as a fatal road accident.
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